Study: Having Sex Once A Week Makes You Happy

This Is How Much Sex Happy Couples Are Having Every Week, Just FYI

Why Is This Important?

Because when you're in a relationship you're always wondering if you're doing it enough.

Long Story Short

It's the Goldilocks zone of getting giggity: Couples are happiest when they have sex once a week, researchers say. Anything more and we won’t be any happier, and anything less can (unsurprisingly) make us less content.

Long Story

We’ve all been led to believe that we’ll be happier if we’re having sex on a regular basis. An evening of Netflix and pizza, we tell ourselves, might sound like the ultimate bonding experience, but a night in the sack is surely guaranteed to be better for our relationship.

But this is only true to a point: couples who have sex more than once a week see no noticeable increase in their happiness, according to a study.

However, couples having sex less than once a week can lead to decreased contentment, scientists from the University of Toronto-Mississauga in Canada found.

“We found that sexual frequency was associated with greater well-being up to about once a week for the average person,” said lead researcher Dr Amy Muise.

“Having sex more frequently than once a week was not associated with greater well-being.”

This is irrelevant of age, gender, or how long a couple has been together, the researchers found. Muise blames the media for the idea that more sex equals a happier relationship.

“Most people strive to be happier and sex is one aspect of life that is thought to be associated with greater happiness,” she said.

But while we might not really feel the effects of a jam-packed sex life, if we’re not getting enough, this study just confirmed what we all knew: a dry spell = sad-face.

After analyzing data collected over decades by thousands of Americans, researchers also found that couples not having much sex are way more miserable than their horny counterparts — more so than poor people are compared to the rich.

They found that the difference in life satisfaction between couples who did the deed less than once a week and those who did it less than once a month was bigger than the difference between couples making between $15,000 to $25,000 annually, and those who were making between $50,000 and $75,000.

So next time your bank statement’s in the red, just remind yourself: it could be worse.

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So six nights of Netflix a week is actually good for my relationship?

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The study found that there was no association between sexual frequency and well-being for single people.

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Two percent of people rated sex as the most important component to a relationship, according to the British sex survey 2014.